Exam 14: CompTIA Server+ Certification Exam

A line-of-business software patch notification is received. The notification indicates that version 5.0 of the software has new features that the accounting department has been expecting. The update requires a new version of the OS and new version of SQL on the server. Which of the following should the administrator perform FIRST?

An administrator receives multiple reports that users cannot access a secure website hosted on a server the administrator manages. The administrator investigates and discovers that the reason users cannot access the secure site is because:

A server has rebooted early in the morning on the second Wednesday of each month for the past three months. No one was logged into the server at the time of the reboots, and there was no planned maintenance on any of the mornings in question. Which of the following is a server technician likely to inspect FIRST to determine the cause of the reboots?

An administrator sees a message in the system console that a drive is bad in the single-volume JBOD storage array. A few minutes later, a user calls the help desk to report an inability to read a file from a mapped drive. Which of the following should the administrator do?

An administrator is planning an upgrade of a major software package on an application server. The software has been tested successfully in a test environment and it is ready to go into production. Which of the following steps should the administrator take next?

A server is connected to a gigabit Ethernet switch and has negotiated 1Gbps / Full Duplex. When transferring large files to and from other servers on the segment via FTP slow performance is noticed. All network cabling, network hardware and server hardware were verified to be working correctly. Which of the following could be done to improve performance?

A technician is troubleshooting a blade server with correctable memory errors on only one DIMM. Which of the following troubleshooting steps should the technician take FIRST?

A technician is configuring a new server on the network. The technician wants the server to be a default gateway for network devices. Which of the following should the technician use to BEST provide the server with the proper IP address?

Which of the following BEST describes RAID 0?

The systems administrator received an alert that one of the servers went offline. The systems administrator logged on remotely to the machine using the IPMI connection and noticed the following message upon boot up: No logical volumes present . Press F1 to continue . Which of the following is the BEST step for the systems administrator to take to resolve the issue?

A server supports a maximum of six hot-swap hard drives. It currently has four drives installed. The administrator has a bare hard drive on hand as a cold spare. Which of the following parts would the administrator need to have to install the drive as a hot spare?

Which of the following must a server administrator do to ensure data on the SAN is not compromised if it is leaked?

An IDS alert is sent to the server administrator indicating an unauthorized access attempt is occurring against a secure file server on the network. Which of the following tools will BEST help confirm this alert?

A technician was assigned new storage for the server from the storage administrator. The technician is unable to see the storage on the server, but the previously assigned storage is visible and working properly. Which of the following should the technician do FIRST in order to see the storage on the server?

An administrator is attempting to connect a laptop directly to a server's 100Mbps management NIC. Which of the following cables should the administrator use ?

Users on multiple network segments report that they are unable to retrieve email from a server. Which of the following commands will allow a server technician to ensure that the email service is running on the server?

The network that is located between the public Internet and the company's internal network is known as:

Which of the following represents the directory permissions to provide least privilege for publicly readable directories on a Unix web server?

A cable management arm should be used:

A technician has traveled to a company's alternate site to assess current operations of the network infrastructure. Following the assessment, the technician has informed management that everything is operational, with all applications and data mirrored. Which of the following types of site does the company have?